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Yearly Archives: 2012
Consumerization, Gamification and 21st Century Skills – A vision of the future of Education
This guest blog post is by David Langridge, Senior Director Partner Development at Microsoft Education, who presented at last week’s Publishers’ Association Annual Conference on technology in education. Three key trends are currently defining the future of education. Here at … Continue reading
The Future of Publishing at the Executive Exchange
Last week, Publishing Technology hosted its annual Executive Exchange customer event in New York, where 20 publishers, industry consultants, press representatives and Publishing Technology executives gathered together to interact, network and exchange information on ways to “move your content forward … Continue reading
Will Blog for Tenure – The Importance of Blogging to the Scholarly Record
We all know that blogs are increasingly important to academic journals, as we recently explored how web-savvy publishers were using social media as a means of attracting and engaging new readers. But how important is blogging to academic researchers themselves? … Continue reading
5 Top Tips for doing business with the BRICs
The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations pose something of a quandary to business owners today. Whilst these growing economies are invariably touted as a real opportunity for British business, they also pose serious linguistic, geographical and cultural barriers … Continue reading
Why Publishers should embrace the B2B2C Marketplace
When the discovery of books migrates from physical browsing to web recommendations to social networks, as Facebook reader app Riffle is pioneering in the model of Pinterest or Spotify, an interesting change occurs in the publishing information supply chain. Publishers … Continue reading
Are you for or against fixed book prices? Publishing Perspectives Survey
The recent end of the US Department of Justice’s anti-trust case against publishers and Apple has ensured that the issue of e-book price fixing and, by extension, the question of fixed book prices a regular spot in the headlines. The … Continue reading
The future of content delivery in Publishing
A minute is a long time on the internet – Google processes approximately two million searches and around 571 websites are launched. It is estimated that in 2011 there were around 555 million websites, more than doubling in size from … Continue reading
The First 10 Years of Digital Publishing – Frankfurt Book Fair 2012
This week we’re reporting from Frankfurt Book Fair, where the largest single event in world publishing is well underway. Publishing Technology’s CEO, George Lossius, appeared in one of the 2012 fair’s opening events in a panel discussion alongside Bloomsbury executive … Continue reading
Publishing: It’s all about the Metadata
We all know good metadata is important on the web but the definition of metadata is confusing and off putting; it’s basically data about data or put simply more information about existing information. I’ve been thinking about metadata and its … Continue reading
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